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How community gardens serve as ‘third places’ for Detroiters

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How community gardens serve as ‘third places’ for Detroiters

Toward the end of 2023, I was newly unemployed and living by myself for the first time. 

In between jobs, searching for employment and a means of fulfillment and community, I began to reflect on how my mom got into gardening. In the dead of winter, memories of childhood summers spent pulling weeds, tilling soil and fleeing the occasional garter snake alongside her began to color my mind. 

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Waymo’s Quickly Taking More Market Share Than I Expected

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To be honest, I hadn’t thought a lot about Waymo’s market share in the cities it operates in. I just figured it’s still fairly small and niche as it works hard to improve its software and hardware. However, it turns out Waymo is getting a lot more business than I … [continued]

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‘Coercive, manipulative’ human trafficker handed 15½ year sentence

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Jordan Hawke’s large-scale human trafficking scheme called out for a large-scale sentence to send a message “in the loudest possible way.” “His actions were exploitative, coercive, manipulative, threatening and sometimes dividing, completely self-serving and prolonged,” said Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie in his decision Friday to sentence Hawke, 33, to 15½ years in prison. “The […]

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Want An Immersive Vacation Experience? Try An Ecolodge

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The Dominican Republic is a major tourist destination, with free-trade zones appealing to many people who travel there. The landscape is a variety of mountains and forests, resorts and beaches, rustic towns and expanding cities. It has pristine lakes, tropical rainforests, dense vegetation, and even desert-like areas. The country is … [continued]

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